"pink" fire bricks?

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Justin King

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I am going to build a HT oven and the only high temp. fire bricks I can find locally are, according to the lady on the phone, "rated for 2100 degrees and kind of a pink color". Has anyone come across these?
The typical high temp. bricks I have found are all rated 2300 or 2600, and are usually white or off-white in color, I have never seen pink ones, or heard of 2100 degree bricks.
I do not plan to operate the oven above 2000 and probably a good deal less than this for the most part, but it seems to me that the heating element itself will probably get above 2000, and it will be housed in a groove cut into the bricks. Are 2100 degree bricks high enough?
 
Those sound like the hard fire bricks used in a lot of kilns. If you need to cut grooves for an element you do not want these, you want the soft bricks and personally I wouldn't use any rated under 2300F...
 
Yep those are the hard bricks, they are the only ones I could find locally as well. I had to order mine.
 
Hi....
Out here in the Seattle area we have a pottery supply store they sell kiln shelves for the bottom of your forge and the have pre grooved soft bricks...
With any luck you might have a pottery supply house near you...They also sell control panels and element material.....
 
I know that around Portland there is some heavy industry that uses big furnaces. The people that repair these should have some.

Try this place http://hightempinc.net/ or search for refractory in Portland
 
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ib2v4u said:
I know that around Portland there is some heavy industry that uses big furnaces. The people that repair these should have some.

Try this place http://hightempinc.net/ or search for refractory in Portland
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I appreciate the reply, I am nowhere near the Portland area though. I have looked for pottery supply places, glass blower's suppliers, etc., with no luck. The time I have spent just searching online is getting to be an issue in itself so the shipping may be worthwhile just to get going.
 
Justin King said:
I appreciate the reply, I am nowhere near the Portland area though. I have looked for pottery supply places, glass blower's suppliers, etc., with no luck. The time I have spent just searching online is getting to be an issue in itself so the shipping may be worthwhile just to get going.
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Sorry read the wrong guys location
 
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